https://php-freelance.com/blog/ Technical write-ups on PHP, Symfony and domain modeling from a senior freelance developer since 2008. Real code, real trade-offs, no generic tutorials. en Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://php-freelance.com/blog/recorded-not-injected/ https://php-freelance.com/blog/recorded-not-injected/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Why a domain event has to wait until what it announces is true, with a full DDD booking aggregate: an AggregateRoot base class, recordThat(), and pullEvents(). https://php-freelance.com/blog/the-readonly-trap/ https://php-freelance.com/blog/the-readonly-trap/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Why readonly alone doesn't make a PHP Value Object correct, with a full DDD booking aggregate: Entities, Value Objects, equals(), and where each one breaks.